Women's Fashion Brands S

Welcome to the S section of the Women's Fashion Brands directory. In this area of the fashion brand directory you will find women's fashion brands from leading apparel companies and fashion designers that begin with the letter S: thirteen brand profiles in all, gathered in the grid below. S is the directory's deepest letter so far - two Paris-and-Florence luxury names, an Australian swim specialist, a backcountry outfitter, two of the world's biggest footwear companies, a shapewear inventor and an urban street label all share one letter - and this hub introduces each at the size its own profile keeps.

If you know of an important women's fashion brand that begins with the letter S and is not listed in this section, please let us know. And if you prefer to search by clothing category rather than by a specific clothing brand, the Clothes Guide linked from this page organises the same wardrobe by garment instead of by name, while the women's fashion brand pages are in this page's links.

Thirteen S Brands: Luxury, Swim, Outdoor, Athletic and Street

The letter opens at the luxury end. Saint Laurent, founded in Paris in 1961 by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, is the house of the Mondrian dress and the women's tuxedo suit; Salvatore Ferragamo and Stuart Weitzman are the letter's designer footwear names, Weitzman credited in his profile with making the most expensive shoes in the world. Shoshanna, the New York dress label that debuted in November 1998, and Sanctuary, the Los Angeles lifestyle brand with a modern take on vintage styling, cover the contemporary wardrobe between them, and Southpole - founded in 1991 in Fort Lee, New Jersey - carries the street end with its bubble jacket and 4180 Relaxed Fit denim.

The letter's second family works outdoors and in the water. Sierra Designs has made camping, alpine and backcountry gear since 1965; Speedo was born on Bondi Beach in 1928 with the Racerback, the world's first non-wool suit; Seafolly and Spyder complete the swim and snow side of the letter. Then come the scale names: Skechers, founded in 1992, marketing more than 3,000 styles into more than 160 countries; Steve Madden, started the same decade with $1,100 and a car trunk, now sold in over 80 countries; and Spanx, which began in 1998 with a pair of scissors and a pair of footless pantyhose and grew into bras, underwear, leggings and active. Each profile states its brand's facts and dates directly.

How to Use These S Profiles

Read each profile for its brand's record. Saint Laurent's gives the 1961 founding, the ready-to-wear revolution and its retail map; Skechers' keeps the 3,000-style and 2,300-store figures and the lifestyle-versus-performance division split; Steve Madden's gives the company's full owned and licensed brand architecture; Spanx's keeps the 1998 invention story and the March 2012 Forbes and TIME record; Speedo's, one of the shortest records in the directory, stands at its honest size - a 1928 founding, a named first product and a single Olympic claim. Where a brand has no published history or official site - Southpole and Stuart Weitzman among them - the gap is left as it is.

This hub points readers onward - across the whole A-to-Z of women's brand letters, to the women's brands main pages and the fashion brands directory, and to the popular brands and designer sections - in the alphabet bar, the navigation and under More to Explore. Thirteen profiles spanning 1928 to the present, from Bondi Beach and Florence to Fort Lee and Atlanta: S is a full wardrobe in one letter, and this hub keeps them in order.